“[In private, White House officials sounded almost resigned to the inevitability of catastrophe.] All we can do, ... is ask ourselves, Have we done everything we can to prevent an attack? I want to be able to look all of you in the eye and [have you] tell me that we have done all that we can.”

“The need for utilities to pass on rising wholesale prices to their customers is very much an inevitability. Absorbing these increased costs to protect market share is simply not a commercially viable option.”